
Among his examples of light objects are ping-pong balls. In Sesame Street Episode 1195, Big Bird gives a lesson on heavy and light.Ernie can be seen watching "Captain Hippopotamus" in Big Bird's Look and Listen Book.

Big Bird mentions having a letter to Captain Kangaroo among various other items that rhyme with "two" in his nest area in Episode 1134.When Oscar calls for service on an airplane in Episode 1091, he calls out for Captain Kangaroo.He cites examples of Sonny and Cher, Donny & Marie and "the Captain and Kangaroo" (a malaprop for Captain & Tennille). In Sesame Street Episode 1052, Big Bird reveals he's written his own musical variety show based on the several he's seen on television.Oscar ends his poem in Episode 0999 with a million ping pong balls, again referencing Mr.Greenjeans," the name of the Captain's chief sidekick. The book Would You Like to Play Hide & Seek in This Book With Lovable, Furry Old Grover? by former Captain Kangaroo staffer Jon Stone features Grover shouting "Mr.Hooper spills a box of ping pong balls on Big Bird in Episode 0677, Big Bird asks if he hears a moose laughing.
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In the 1980s, Matt Robinson was a staff writer for Captain Kangaroo and reused his script for a Roosevelt Franklin skit, specifically the story of Morty Moot Mope.timeslot occupied on CBS by Captain Kangaroo, so as not to be in direct competition with what CTW viewed as the only worthwhile network children's show. When scheduling the first season of Sesame Street, Joan Ganz Cooney and associates deliberately avoided the 8 a.m.

Episodes of Captain Kangaroo were studied to test children's attention spans and to help develop the CTW model. This was in no small part due to the fact that many of the key members of the Children's Television Workshop, including Dave Connell and Jon Stone, had previously worked on the series.
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Though the series was not designed to follow a specific educational curriculum, elements of the Captain Kangaroo format influenced the development of Sesame Street. Created by and starring Bob Keeshan, the series combined comedy skits with nature lessons, story reading, animated segments, and puppet characters (including Mr. Moose's order of ping-pong balls in Episode 0640 of Sesame Street.Įrnie enjoys an episode of "Captain Hippopotamus" in Big Bird's Look and Listen Book.Ĭaptain Kangaroo was a children's television series which, in one form or another, ran from 1955 until 1984 on CBS and was later re-run on PBS. Captain Kangaroo himself, Bob Keeshan, with George Takei and Beaker on Muppets Tonight.įrom Would You Like to Play Hide & Seek in This Book With Lovable, Furry Old Grover?.
